it's not a u.s. chartered ship. all that stuff, the jones act, all gets back to protecting union jobs. you have a pecking order in this country where environmentalists and unions, their interests come before saving lives and helping other americans. >> eric: this has been running around the internet, i've gotten this four or five times on my twitter feed. i just can't believe it. i just can't believe that they would turn away help because they were nonunion. this doesn't make any sense. >> i got to tell you something. >> eric: if that's a problem, chris christie has been fighting the teachers unions. how about waiving whatever rules you got here? >> steve: you know what? it could actually be part of the federal bureaucracy. i don't see chris christie standing for it. but it could actually be some of the union members of the utility crews here in the new york-new jersey area. >> the toughest hard nosed union representatives in this country are utility workers, verizon, these kind of places in new york, new jersey, th